"Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, three-quarter length, standing, turned to the right, but looking towards the viewer, wearing low-cut silk dress with ample sleeves, with right hand resting on monumental stone vase, and left hand pointing up; in ornate frame; after Anthony van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of ornate frame and all text below image. Title, statements of responsibility, and imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 46 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
